Michael Mukasey, the president’s nominee to succeed Alberto Gonzales as U.S. attorney general, was warmly welcomed by lawmakers of both parties at a confirmation hearing today, in a session that…
Only a few hours before Christopher Scott Emmett was scheduled to die tonight in Virginia by lethal injection, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously halted the planned execution.
An Atlanta judge has halted jury selection in the trial of an alleged courthouse gunman because the state says it has no more money to pay the defendant’s lawyers.
A Washington state man has been arrested for allegedly perpetrating a bizarre computer hacker attack that resulted in a SWAT team storming a home in upscale Orange County, Calif.
The Bush administration’s Justice Department has reallocated its resources, focusing less on mobsters and some white-collar crimes and more on terrorism, weapons offenses and immigration violations.
A new report to be released today says states should review the sentences of some juvenile offenders sentenced to life in prison to see if they deserve parole.
At a Congressional hearing today, U.S. Department of Justice officials said they are considering a prosecution over the handling of the case of the so-called Jena Six—black youths who apparently…
A British lawyer who seemingly had it all, Bruce Hyman was also a wonderful guy. So friends were stunned when he became the first barrister in the bar’s 800-year history…
Two California criminal cases were dismissed yesterday in Riverside County because of a lack of judges. And seven more—all of them felonies—appeared headed for the same conclusion today.
Photographs of an alleged pedophile posted on the Internet by Interpol in what reportedly was the first such effort ever made by the international law enforcement agency have reaped immediate…
Dissents by two conservative judges on the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals may have led the U.S. Supreme Court to accept a money laundering case yesterday.
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